olivia_elise_reads's reviews
29 reviews

The Christmas Lodge by Fiona Baker

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.5

Suchhhh a cute christmas romance! All the christmas vibes and loved the mystery/suspense part. 

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Such a great book. Mariana is the QUEEN of slow burn. perfect build up to that explosive ending. love love love!

Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

LITERALLY the cutest christmas romance. v smutty tho

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

3.75

Antigone by Sophocles

3.5

As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

adventurous challenging dark emotional

4.5

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

could NOT put this book down. thrilling, unexpected and cliffhanger ending! amazing amazing book. exaclty how YA fantasy should be

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The best series I have ever read. Seriously, there will never be another piece of literature that I consume that consumed me back the way this did. I wish I could just hug Leigh Bardugo and tell her how much this series changed the way I look at reading and the way I look at life. I was such an amazing series with amazing setting and vibes, the way the characters were written were out of this world and I connected to them in a way that it feels like I am shutting my best friends in a book and stuffing them away in a bookshelf. Definitely going to reread this on my own and to all my children and grandchildren lol. Also this book was the best one out of them.

The end was the best ending possible. Giving Mal and Alina a fair and happily ever after ending was amazing. I also love that throughout the series, things didn't end up ironically convenient for Alina just because she was the main character/protagonist.